What Fence You Ask?

I suppose I do straddle quite a few fences.  But the one that sneaks up on me every day is the fence that separates the stay at home moms and the working moms.  I am neither, but I am both at the same time!  So much debate goes into which is better for the child, which is better for the mom, better for the family and which is better according to society?  I wonder, what difference does it really all make?  Aren't we one and the same? I mean last time I checked, we were all Moms - aiming towards the same goal - to raise good kids.  Now defining 'good' kids is a whole other post LOL.

I did one and then the other, and now....well I do both!  It seems that the one thing I noticed is that whichever side of the fence you end up on, you still have to mow the grass.  On neither side of said fence is the grass really any greener!  We all take peeks onto the other side of the fence, some of us stare longingly at the other side wishing we were on it because we've been there before, others wonder what it's even like on the other side, yet still others are perfectly content right where they are.

So, I heard they held a day last year called Non-Judgement Day.  A day when we, as moms, are supposed to not judge other moms.  Really?  Are we really so bad that we need a special day to be nice to each other, to respect one another, to be grateful for each other?  

I am grateful to all kinds of moms.  I mean they all rally together to make sure our kids will grow up to be amazing!  The working mom Doctor who sees my kids when they are sick, the stay at home mom who helps pick my kid up when I am running late, the work at home mom who is trying to find a way for mommies to keep up with their own personal goals - I am thankful for them all. Judge, no way!  They are the glue that keeps me sane.  The ones that I know I can count on for anything and everything.  Who am I to judge what they choose to do or not do?  Besides, things would get pretty boring if we were all the same, right?

So, me, the straddler, I straddle this fence, working from home as a career coach and staying at home and making homemade playdough.  At times things get a bit jumbled, like when I am figuring out how to best summarize a CEO's career and suddenly I have a kid who wants to hug me because Barney is singing 'I love you, you love me...', but I wouldn't change it for the world.  So, this is me, like me or leave me.